"Your Majesty, the news of the food shortage has already spread, and this is the time to find a way to stabilize the situation, if the state now controls all the food and reaches the ears of the people, it will only accelerate their fears, and in this way, I am afraid that chaos will spread, it can be fatal."

"Your Majesty, if there is no new grain, we should now consider how to solve this problem, instead of fighting the idea of our own family, the minister suggests that we inform General Yeluren Xian and let him launch an attack on the dragon army as soon as possible, as long as the dragon army can be defeated, we can ask them to provide the food we lack."

"This is a good solution, the minister seconded the proposal, please send troops to Your Majesty."

"The minister also seconded the motion."

"Your Majesty asks for an order to let Yeluren send troops first."

At the beginning, the courtiers still had to think of ways to refute the control of grain under the control of the imperial court, thinking about how to protect their own interests. But as he spoke, the building was crooked.

Of course, it can't be said that the building is crooked, but someone is deliberately changing the topic, in short, using other things to attract Liao Xingzong's attention and sabotage Zhang Jian's proposal.

The ministers almost had the same attitude, and what they asked for was the same, and sure enough, Liao Xingzong's attention began to divert and put it on the matter of forcing the Dragon Empire.

With the wisdom of Liao Xingzong, how could he not see what the courtiers were fighting with their ideas?

It's just that the general trend is like this, so many courtiers oppose the imperial court's control of grain, if he forcibly orders it, I'm afraid there will really be chaos.

Don't underestimate these important ministers in the court, if they have the same idea, even if he is the emperor, some things can't be done, and the world is the enemy, even if it is the emperor, I am afraid that the throne will be unstable.

In addition, Liao Xingzong is finally old, and he has long lost the courage of his youth, and he doesn't want to be an enemy of his ministers. Only then did he deliberately look away from everyone's attention and said, "That is the case, I immediately issued an order to order Yeluren to immediately attack the Dragon Empire."

"Your Majesty."

At the moment, above the court, all the courtiers were chanting in unison, and Zhang Jian's face became more and more ugly.

If the internal worries are not solved, blindly going out to the army, once defeated, it will only make the problem of internal worries even bigger.

But even if he knew this, Zhang Jian couldn't do anything. He has just made a big mistake, the emperor did not punish his own crimes, he is already extraordinarily gracious, where is his part to speak at this time?

......

Liaoyang City, Tokyo.

The emperor's decree was sent here at an expedited rate of eight hundred miles. After seeing the emperor's new decree, Yelu Renxian's face became a little ugly.

Catapults are still under construction, and the army has not yet found the weakness of these watchtowers, how can the army attack now, which is irresponsible for the lives of the soldiers, and it is irresponsible for the national fortunes of the Liao State.

But this was the emperor's will, but Yeluren first refused it.

If he refuses, he will resist the decree, not only will he die, but even his family in Shangjing will not end well.

"Well, we've built hundreds of catapults, so let's attack early tomorrow morning." With a hint of luck, Yeluren decided to send troops first.

That same night, hundreds of freshly built catapults were pushed out and set up in formation, as if they were about to attack in a big way.

Coming to the far city, the news quickly spread to Su Shi's ears through the radio waves.

"Is it finally time to attack? Huh." After Su Shi got the news, he was not in a hurry.

All this was already in his plan.

Create a food shortage for the Liao State, so that they have to take the initiative to attack, at that time, as the defensive side, Su Shi can fight steadily and win the greatest victory at the minimum cost.

Su Shi doesn't like confrontation very much, his goal is too big, whether it is the Goryeo that has been destroyed, or the Liao State that he wants to destroy now, it is just a small step on his way forward. His goal is to make the Han people the pinnacle of this world, how can he delay too long here in a mere Liao country.

Everything that should be prepared has been prepared, and Su Shi did not have it for the Liao State to launch an attack

There was the slightest sense of nervousness, and he didn't even take this matter seriously, as if he hadn't received the news, what should he have done or what he should do.

The Dragons will fight back, but not now.

Or use the watchtower to sharpen the Liao army's soldiers first, until they are subdued, and then it is a good time for the dragon army to attack.

Early the next morning, it began to rain lightly.

Although it is not big, it will still feel damp after a long time, which makes people uncomfortable. ap.

Looking up at the sky, Yeluren scolded dissatisfiedly. But what should be done is still to be done, to raise the Lingqi high, and then quickly fall, hundreds of catapults, which are slowly coming forward under the impetus of the Liao soldiers.

The Liao soldiers prepared the catapult, and Su Shi had already been reported. To say that this thing, the accuracy is extremely poor, even if one or two boulders fall under the watchtower, the damage that can be played will not be very large.

But if the watchtower is smashed too many times, it is inevitable that there will be losses, which is helpless for anyone.

Facing 500,000 Liao soldiers, including 400,000 elites, it is simply impossible for the Dragon Army to repel them, without killing a single person.

The existence of watchtowers can minimize their own losses, which is already a very good result.

After the Liao army's catapults were ready, the huge stones were moved up by the Liao soldiers, and after an order, the stones were thrown out and smashed towards the towers closest to them.

In front of an archery hole in the watchtower, Jiang Xiezheng, the leader of the regular soldier squad who led the team, looked at the scene in front of him with a solemn face.

As a veteran, Jiang Xie came to Goryeo with Su Shi from Zhao Song, and went through a lot of battles until now, becoming a regular soldier squad leader.

It was precisely because of his timid nature that many of his comrades-in-arms have now become deputy platoon commanders, platoon commanders and even company commanders, but he is still just a deputy squad leader.

Seeing that his comrades had achieved something because of their merits and experienced the baptism of war, Jiang Xie, who had already put life and death aside, knew that he had to work hard, otherwise, the gap between him and his comrades-in-arms would only get bigger and bigger, and he really had no face to see at that time.

This time there was an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, Jiang Xie won it, and he also became the commander of the watchtower at the front.

As mentioned above, as long as he can survive this time, he will at least be a deputy platoon commander when he looks back, and if he performs well, it is not impossible to be promoted to platoon commander, just like that, he came.

Not only Jiang Xie, but the twenty-nine soldiers he brought with him also had the mentality of making great contributions. As long as they can survive this battle, they will be directly promoted from assistant peasant soldiers to auxiliary soldiers, and then they may become regular soldiers of the real dragon army, and that treatment is what they have never dreamed of.

Man dies for money, and birds die for food.

For the sake of their own future, Jiang Xie and other thirty soldiers have long held the mentality of becoming benevolent. Now seeing that the Liao soldiers were getting closer and closer to them, they were not a little afraid, but their whole bodies became excited.

If he can really go back alive under the heavy damage to the enemy this time, I am afraid that the credit this time will be enough for them to blow for a lifetime.

"The catapult can't break the watchtower for the time being, the enemy will attack after a while, we try to kill the enemy, make more merits, and when the watchtower can't hold on, we will run backwards with all our might, and then the other watchtowers will give us support. Whether it's a hero or a bear will soon be seen."

"We're going to be heroes." The other twenty-nine warriors spoke in unison.

"Alright, let's take out our strongbow and shoot as many enemies as we get close to us." After boosting his morale, while speaking, Jiang Xie first took out a compound strong bow, opened the observation eye in front of him, and prepared for archery.

The boulders leap up, and the number is quite large, and more than 100 boulders can be released at one time. But as Su Shi expected, the hit rate was too low, and after seeing it for a long time, only a few stones happened to hit the watchtower

, After not causing much damage, Luo Changmeng, the Liao general who was the main attacker, became anxious.

"Go, let's rush up and hit the iron gate with the sleepers, and smash the watchtower."

The efficiency was so slow, Luo Changmeng decided to attack with manpower, and as for those catapults, they changed directions and smashed towards another dragon army's watchtower.

The general gave the order, and the soldier ran and broke his leg.

On the watchtower, Jiang Xie saw that Liao soldiers were starting to rush towards him, so he hurriedly said to the soldiers around him: "Everyone pay attention, the enemy is coming, everyone get ready, and shoot arrows towards the place where there are many of them."

Jiang Xie knew very well in his heart that the twenty-nine soldiers around him were not his comrades-in-arms when he was in the People's Army, not to mention that there were no arrows, at least ten arrows were shot, and they were also people who could hit seven arrows. These are all peasant soldiers, but they have only undergone a short period of training, and it is simply impossible to point out that they can become sharpshooters in a short period of time.

That is, if there is no accurate head, then use the quantity to make up.

There are so many arrows that you can shoot a few people, even if you try your luck.

As long as more arrows are shot and blood is seen, the mentality of the soldiers will gradually change, and when they are not taking killing seriously, they can be regarded as veterans.

The peasant soldiers were indeed a little nervous, and some of them were even trembling with their arms at this time.

Fortunately, this is not a two-sided match, they are all hiding in the watchtower, even if this will be afraid, it will not affect anything, it is nothing more than a few fewer arrows.

"Put!"

Seeing that the nearest Liao soldier was only fifty or sixty steps away from them, Jiang Xie opened his mouth and gave the order to release the arrows.